In a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, ISS researchers estimated about 680,000 cases of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in a total of 12,730,960 migrants aged between 60 and 89 years living in the European Union (EU) in 2018. The proportion of cases among migrants (compared to the total in the resident population) ranged from 1.1 percent in Romania to 54.1 percent in Liechtenstein, with an overall increase over four years of 34 percent, rising from 511,624 cases in 2014 to 686,000 in 2018.
In Italy, 34,655 cases were estimated among migrants (916,865 in the general population), equal to 3.8 percent of the foreign-born residents in our country. “MCI and…
